Character and Conduct – 20 June – Balance
…help to keep consistency from hardening to obstinacy, and common sense from sinking into time-serving;
Category: poem
Character and Conduct – 19 June – Balance
TEMPERANCE is reason’s girdle and passion’s bridle.
Character and Conduct – 18 June – Temperance
It is easier in many cases to pluck out the right eye or to cut off the right hand than to discipline and employ them.
Character and Conduct – 17 June – Spiritual Balance and Proportion
A WELL-GOVERNED mind learns in time to find pleasure in nothing but the true and the just.
Character and Conduct – 16 June – Public Opinion
SUPPOSE any man shall despise me. Let him look to that himself. But I will look to this, that I be not discovered doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
Character and Conduct – 15 June – Public Opinion
We forget that while we are not required to judge our neighbours, we are required to judge ourselves.
Character and Conduct – 14 June – The Code of Society
THERE is no commoner danger than that of accepting the code of the society in which you live as the rule of right.
Character and Conduct – 13 June – Egotism
He who is always enquiring what people will say, will never give them opportunity to say anything great about him.
Character and Conduct – 12 June – Humility
HUMILITY is the hall-mark of wisdom.
Character and Conduct – 11 June – Conceit
Pride mars, blights, and withers whatever it touches. It begets assumptions that are very belittling as well as hard to bear.
